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barrenko · 2026-09-11T13:37:38.000000Z

HHhH is a decent book; it's probably DHH?

barrenko · 2026-09-10T12:13:18.000000Z

Does it beat Geminis on document processing is what I want to know.

barrenko · 2026-09-10T05:21:35.000000Z

Cogito ergo sum is still the only "barrier" for self-awareness, aka real knowledge.

barrenko · 2026-09-09T08:07:46.000000Z

Soon this equation will not be posed just for engineers.

barrenko · 2026-09-08T13:00:07.000000Z

My dudes, the EU doesn't have enough gas to survive the following winter, let alone if Poutine decides to go around Ukraine and test NATO in production.

Mistral is the cherry on the sundae of our concerns. It's a spiritual thing.

barrenko · 2026-09-08T12:58:19.000000Z

" And it will most likely end up as an acquisition." if they were really a thread, OAI / Anthropic would probably have swallowed them up by now, they're just going to go a decade as a EU zombie consultancy.

I hope I'm wrong here.

barrenko · 2026-09-08T12:56:13.000000Z

Europe is not China, I repeat we are not China, they build stuff. A guy from Austria ended up on Chinese national TV due to the bizarre way he had to obtain an AC unit this summer. Let's stop the larp.

barrenko · 2026-09-08T12:54:49.000000Z

A new ICE line between Antwerpen and Koln opened up the last week. The first train was half an hour late, the distance is under 250 km.

jononor · 2026-09-08T15:54:27.000000Z

That is not great. But it is still better than other continents?

barrenko · 2026-09-08T12:29:57.000000Z

Not sure if you are European, but in EU it's a bit taboo to even talk about this in this manner. We like to spend a lot of money to make sure we finish last.

barrenko · 2026-09-04T14:44:37.000000Z

If you hate your job, an hour feels like hell. But it's your responsability, and if you don't like it, you just got to move.

Cthulhu_ · 2026-09-04T15:08:31.000000Z

That "just" is doing a lot of work though; the jobs market is... challenging right now. Cost of living has exploded, demand for software developers is unstable due to the advent of AI assisted coding. (for the latter I'm sure the market will correct itself over time but still, short term it's an issue)